Liz Ruskin

For NPR News, I'm Liz Ruskin.

On Wall Street, both the Dow and the Nasdaq are up almost 1%.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is opening the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.

But oil companies might not bid.

Prior lease sales brought no development.

Burgum also took steps to advance two roads in roadless areas.

The Ambler Road is intended to spur mining in northwest Alaska...

Tribal members fear it will end their ability to live off the land.

The other road would link the isolated community of King Cove to an all-weather airport, but it would cross a refuge important to bird migrations.

Environmental groups say the fight isn't over.

For NPR News, I'm Liz Ruskin.